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So these stations uplinked to 148 are completely false? Or uplinked to nowhere?

Or is Dish planning to reoccupy the space at 148 on some future date? No one apparently knows.

And what good do distants do at that location? Just spaceholders? Or does Dish want to make 148 the location for RV customers to purchase distants from various cities, and also make it a location for a la carte nationwide distants (although both are a limited market)?

perhaps spaceholders of some type. Each time zone, Chicago being E & C, for backup conus signals if & when there is some interruption with a local in the particular time zone. Directv does this with NY & LA. However, I wouldn't think 148 would be an option...that's as bad as 61.5...out of range for most...something over the central US would be more reasonable...72.7, 110.

perhaps spaceholders of some type. Each time zone, Chicago being E & C, for backup conus signals if & when there is some interruption with a local in the particular time zone. Directv does this with NY & LA. However, I wouldn't think 148 would be an option...that's as bad as 61.5...out of range for most...something over the central US would be more reasonable...72.7, 110.

That could be a possibility, but, like you say, it would make more sense to uplink to satellites that everyone is seeing, like 72.7 and 110. And they would need HD and SD uplinked from NY and LA, or comparable cities. And they could add Denver for Mountain time. Actually, didn't Denver just go up on the uplink report?

Just a thought--Does some other satellite company own/lease a satellite at the 148 location? Perhaps that company is purchasing uplink services from Dish in order to sell distants from a variety of cities. It wouldn't really seem like a moneymaker, but who knows? A quick review of the uplinks tells me that NY and Denver and Chicago are uplinked in SD and HD, but LA is only uplinked in SD. I would think that LA should go up in HD as well, as well as a few other cities--maybe Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Boise, Salt Lake City, Honolulu, and San Francisco.

So these stations uplinked to 148 are completely false? Or uplinked to nowhere?

Or is Dish planning to reoccupy the space at 148 on some future date? No one apparently knows.

And what good do distants do at that location? Just spaceholders? Or does Dish want to make 148 the location for RV customers to purchase distants from various cities, and also make it a location for a la carte nationwide distants (although both are a limited market)?

The reports show changes in System Tables (meta data).

There is nothing regarding UPLINK, and just a description of downlink, not downlink itself.

My theory, with Denver and Chicago, is eventually to provide the ability for "distants" by having major network affiliates available in each time zone. More so for situations like a city does not have a nearby ABC, so if one lives in the Central Time Zone, they would get WLS from Chicago. Live in Jackson, Wyoming, no nearby CBS, you may get KCNC from Denver. Sort of the way they now do CW and MyTV in some ares today. Just a theory.

My theory, with Denver and Chicago, is eventually to provide the ability for "distants" by having major network affiliates available in each time zone. More so for situations like a city does not have a nearby ABC, so if one lives in the Central Time Zone, they would get WLS from Chicago. Live in Jackson, Wyoming, no nearby CBS, you may get KCNC from Denver. Sort of the way they now do CW and MyTV in some ares today. Just a theory.

Is MyTV a real network? All I see on KRON is Dr. Phil or infomercials.